Purgatory Artist-Chapter 163: Teamup
Chapter 163 - Teamup
"I remember that you fought with Liu Ping before?" The old man asked.
"Yes, we were comrades." Hua Qingkong said.
"That's good, you guys will work well together. Liu Ping, what else do you have to say?" The old man asked.
Liu Ping said, "Can I make a request?"
"What request?" The old man asked.
"I want to participate in the investigation of No. 21 Floating Light Road." Liu Ping said.
"Hmm? What does that have to do with you? "The old man asked cautiously.
Liu Ping took out a silver emblem and placed it on the desk.
— The Emblem of the Naturalist.
"I see." The old man was relieved. "It's good that you're willing to take the initiative. I'll give you this authority, you can investigate with Hua Qingkong."
The old man took out a document and placed it in front of Liu Ping.
Liu Ping picked up the document and saw a line of small words on it.
|Top secret.|
|Information about the fifth exploration of the naturalist team.|
|The team was tasked with the mission of entering the ruins of the Ceylon Kingdom and investigating the cause of the kingdom's destruction.|
|22nd March, the exploration team made significant progress and needed to return to the Imperial City to use the power of the War Sequence to further analyze a certain substance.|
|23rd March, the exploration team returned to the Imperial City.|
|A fire broke out that night, no survivors.|
|By restoring the fire attribute, it can be found that the flame is the Soul Extinguishing Fire curse.|
|The Soul Extinguishing Fire destroys all traces of the soul, no evidence can be found through tracing.|
|Further investigation is in progress.|
|That's all for the report.|
Liu Ping finished quickly and said, "The Ceylon Kingdom? I remember that this country appeared about a hundred years ago. "
"Yes, it existed for too short a time. Before it could develop, it was destroyed by a certain existence in the Eternal Night and ate all the human souls." The old man continued.
"What about our empire?" Hua Qingkong suddenly asked.
"Our empire has existed for three hundred years. When the royal family fell into the Eternal Night, they brought the War Machine Sequence and used this sequence to expand our territory step by step." Liu Ping said.
"You really do look like a scholar," the old man joked.
"Three hundred years, not much knowledge, I can't be considered a scholar." Liu Ping shook his head naturally.
The old man glanced at him and said, "This case has reached a bottleneck. All the clues have been lost. There is almost no way to investigate further. What do you think?"
"Why is there no way?" Liu Ping was shocked.
"All the evidence and clues have been destroyed. The police station and we are at our wits' end. Could it be ..." The old man did not finish his sentence.
The female secretary tactfully retreated and closed the door.
Liu Ping said, "Of course there's a way. We have to secretly send people to follow the trail of the fifth exploration team and walk through the ruins of the Ceylon Kingdom again to see if we can find out what they have discovered. Isn't this the most important thing?"
The old man was silent for a moment. Suddenly, he took out a document and quickly wrote something on it.
"From now on, Hua Qingkong will be your leader. She will be responsible for your safety. As for you, as the Naturalist, you are suitable to investigate the ruins. The ruins have been explored many times, so there shouldn't be too much danger," the old man said.
"The two of us? Won't it be too weak? "Liu Ping asked.
"You have to believe in Hua Qingkong's ability. She's the captain of the special forces. Besides, there are only two of you. It'll be more efficient if you don't show off." The old man said.
"Yes! Commander-in-chief! "Hua Qingkong saluted.
Liu Ping thought for a moment.
Indeed, the ruins of the kingdom had been explored many times. Hua Qingkong was a Spirit Summoner. After half a year of growth, her strength had already reached an unknown level.
Why did that monster want to kill everyone in the exploration team?
The answer was waiting for him in the ruins.
As a scholar, all he needed to do was to investigate the Fifth Expedition Team.
If he could find something, not only would he be able to lead the problem to the Emperor, but he would also be able to obtain a large number of merit points.
Thinking of this, Liu Ping saluted together with Hua Qingkong.
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This meant that he agreed.
The old man smiled and called the female secretary in. He handed the document to her and said, "It's a top-secret operation.
"This is a top-secret operation. Go and prepare everything."
"Yes, I'll do it now." The female secretary picked up the document, turned and walked out of the office.
"Okay, you guys can go. I still need to catch up on my sleep." The old man waved at Hua Qingkong and Liu Ping.
The two of them left the office, closed the door, and left.
The Commander-in-Chief's office was quiet.
The old man sat on the wide armchair, crossed his legs, and lit a cigarette for himself.
He took a few deep puffs, blew out a smoke ring and said, "Replay."
Without a sound, the screen on the office table lit up.
Amidst the loud music, the screen of the fighting game appeared again. On it, powerful Pugilists appeared one after another.
Very quickly, the cutscene ended.
All the Pugilists stood together and looked out of the screen.
"Old Zhou, how do you feel?" the old man asked.
The Pugilists that he controlled before stood out and said with a thoughtful expression, "That kid's combat skills aren't low ... he could find the flaws in my punches and continuous attacks after watching it a few times."
The old man looked at another Pugilist.
— — That was the Pugilists that Liu Ping chose.
"You all know that I'm a natural counter to old Zhou," the Pugilists said. "I don't know if he chose me to fight old Zhou because he was reckless, or if he was born with an instinct for combat."
One of the spectating Pugilists spoke up: "In the last round, you used two Divine Skills, three Secret Techniques, and you didn't miss a single time."
"So there's a conclusion." old Zhou said.
"He's a natural fighter — — now I understand why he said that."
"Which one?"
"Before the battle, he said: 'I usually won't lose in fighting'"
"Tsk, aren't we overestimating him?"
"Let's hear what Bourbon has to say."
The Pugilists all looked at the old man.
The old man slammed the table: "War sequence!"
The void of space opened, metal pipes came out one by one, hovering in front of the old man.
A cold metallic voice came:
[Commander-in-chief of the Empire, please tell us your to-do list]
"Use the special reserves to help that shameless brat quickly increase his strength," the old man said.
[Sir, who is' that shameless brat '?] the cold metallic voice asked.
"Liu Ping"
[Received, according to sir's authority, this matter has entered the preparation stage]
All the metal pipes retreated and disappeared into the void of space.
"You even gave him the special reserves? Isn't that a bit too much? "a Pugilist asked in surprise.
The old man sighed and spoke tiredly: "The Holy Knight Profession, although it's very deceptive, its stance is very firm, it's one of the best in the Divine Faction, much more trustworthy compared to those angels who often betray and turn evil."
"A brat that age? That can't be right, "another Pugilist asked.
"It can't be helped, I'm just taking a gamble, at least I've prepared an extra bargaining chip, who cares if it's useful or not." the old man answered.
"What are you worried about?" old Zhou asked.
The old man went silent for a bit, then muttered: "For some reason, I've been having nightmares recently ..."
The Pugilists all stepped aside, looking at a woman wearing a red robe and holding a snow-white fan.
The woman opened her fan and covered her face: "Bourbon, what did you dream of?"
"I dreamt of an endless ocean — — – there were constant earthquakes in the ocean, and some terrifying fellows that I've never seen before came out from the cracks in the ocean," the old man answered.
"Alright, let me divine it" the woman lightly waved her fan.
Two large black words slowly appeared on the fan:
|Kingdom destroyed|
...
"Liu Ping, the medicine I gave you, you didn't sell it for money right?" Hua Qingkong asked as they walked.
Liu Ping tapped his head, took out the bottle of soul-nourishing medicine and drank it in front of Hua Qingkong.
The elevator opened.
The two of them went in.
"I've been too busy recently, so I didn't have time to drink it," Liu Ping answered.
"I heard this medicine is very useful, how about we see if you can level up this time?" Hua Qingkong was interested.
"Sure." Liu Ping answered.
In the void of space, lines of burning text slowly appeared:
[You've drunk the soul-nourishing medicine]
[Your Soul Points have increased by 1]
[Current Soul Points: 12/12]
Every point of Soul Points can be used to unleash a basic ability.
Thanks to the Heroic Spirit Shelter ability, Liu Ping once extracted a mutated ability from Yana: Soul Absorption.
Using that ability, his Soul Points instantly increased to 11 points.
This was already far beyond a normal rank 2 Professionist.
And now, his Soul Points had reached 12 points.
— — -If I don't breakthrough now, when should I!
Liu Ping took out his Advance Card and infused all his Soul Points into it.
"12 Soul Points, that's enough!"
Hua Qingkong looked at the scale on the advancement card and excitedly exclaimed.
"I need to find a quiet place to complete my breakthrough," Liu Ping said.
The elevator opened.
Hua Qingkong pulled Liu Ping and headed outside.
"Come with me, to my office." she said as she ran.
The two of them quickly reached the end of the corridor and stood in front of a wall.
Liu Ping looked around, only to find that there was no one on this floor.
— — -There wasn't even an office.
This place seemed to be a mezzanine between two floors, but also underground, there was no way to tell where they were.
Hua Qingkong put her hand on the wall and muttered "Special combat squad, Hua Qingkong"
The wall opened.
This feels like a foreshadowing lol, and who is this old man to know so many things? he might be special!
